Thanks Tascio,It is the first exciting thing I have found. First permission, my first farm, first field.I usually go beach detecting but never find anything except modern coins (all saved to upgrade my machine!)Diggerp.s. The one on PAS looks quite similar and also someone is selling one on ebay at the moment, both same but different, it has been suggested to me it could be modern or a buckle fragment.I much prefer the idea of a votive axe !!

The buckle fragment idea hadn't occured to me, but looking at it now it could well be the middle bar of a buckle. Although, it does still look to me a lot like a votive axe with a piece of the blade broken off. Best bet might be to play it safe and get the opinion of a FLO.

Well done on saving beach finds for a new machine! That must have been a grind!